Maryam () is an online shopper and strives to make the online shopping experience more efficient for everyone! She has publications on topics of adaptive and preference learning as well as human activity recognition. She has worked at Intel laboratories and is a recipient of the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship.

Jan () is excited about making online shopping easier for people. He has publications in the areas of intelligent user interfaces and automated multi-document text summarization and is a recipient of BC Innovation Scholarship. Previously he worked at NASA and the Arecibo Observatory.

Optemo, moreover, benefits from a group of business and scientific advisors.